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Can you please tell us what’s going on with Serena? Will she continue to pine for Dan? — @lexieflavor
Let’s just say there’s no one new coming on to the show in the near future to mix things up for the characters’ love lives. “Who we have is who we have,” EP Josh Safran told me yesterday (on Gossip Girl Day!) “We’re continuing to tell the stories with our people and I think that will be really fun to watch.”

Any good Chuck and Blair news for #GG? — @melc51
I have news for fans of romance (I simply can not guarantee one group or the other, though). Why? Because while ep 100 is rife with heartache and drama, there’s light on the horizon. “[The episodes coming up] are fun and funny and have a lot of romance,” Safran previews, “more than there has been this season. And a lot of alliances and teams.” But again, I will not, can not say any more.

Any idea on how long it will take Chuck to find out about this ridiculous pact Blair made with God? — Melissa
Not long. Promise.

aceshowbiz.com:

Kaylee DeFer has ended her engagement to her longtime beau Mike Pereira, but she refused to dwell on the breakup. When celebrating “Gossip Girl” 100th episode on January 26, the 25-year-old starlet shared her feelings to Us Weekly. “We just separated,” she said before adding, “It’s OK. It really is.”

During the chat at the event held at Skylight Studios in Hollywood, DeFer went on explaining, “I was engaged for a long time and this is me being single. I’m totally OK with it, so I’m spreading my love now.” She added, “I think sometimes you just realize it’s time to move on. So now I’m spreading my love and being single, and it’s fine. Really.”

Talking about her plan for the upcoming Valentine’s Day, the newly-single DeFer shared, “I’m going to sit down with a group of friends and make a bunch of old school Valentines like you did back in the day. We’ll send them out to all of these people from your past, present and people you want to get to know.” She went on, “Because who doesn’t want to have a Valentine on Valentine’s Day?”

// January 26th – NBC Entertainment & The Cinema Society Premiere of “Smash”

// January 26th – Jason Wu For Target Private Launch Event

// January 26th – Mayoral Proclamation In Celebration Of The “Gossip Girl” 100th Episode

eonline.com:

It’s here! It’s finally here!

Gossip Girl’s 100th episode is just days away and everyone is excited…including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was on the show’s set today to give the CW drama their own day: Yes, it’s officially Gossip Girl Day! Shall we celebrate with some sneak peeks of the 100th episode and interviews with Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick reminsicing on the last five years? We shall!

So why does Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg) decide to crash Blair’s wedding? And what does Meester want to see happen with Blair?

“I can’t even believe it’s been five years. It’s so crazy,” Lively says of the milestone achievement. “It doesn’t feel like we’ve done a hundred because it’s been so enjoyable.”

Meester agrees, but adds, “I feel like in one way I’ve been here my whole life, so it’s like, oh my god! It’s the 100th episode! It seems like an entire lifetime, but at the same time it’s happened so fast. It just seems like we came here yesterday.” With so much going on with Blair in the 100th episode, Meester says, “I kind of just want to see what happens with Blair. I want to continue to live that other part of life. It feels like a little alter ego of my life that I get to explore and growth with.”

For Badgley, he’s grateful for the opportunities that Gossip Girl has provided to him and his castmembers. “It’s been a very interesting experience and it’s given all of us a lot of what we have now, both on and off camera,” he says. “It’s been a significant experience; massive and definitive for all of us.”

Westwick echoes his costars’ sentiments, saying, “It’s quite an achievement, I have to say. It feels like it’s happened so quickly.”

And just to tease fans a bit, Westwick adds in, “We’re still going strong so I’m looking forward to the next 100! We’ll see what happens.”

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perezhilton.com:

Don’t scoff! It was made official by the honorable New York Mayor Bloomberg!

For the past five years, the Upper East Side has been the actual backdrop for the ongoing dramas on Gossip Girl. Over 180 crew members and 120 principal actors have lived and worked in the city while the show’s been on the air, and the fiscal result as been profitable for the Big Apple. Some $200 million has been spent on local development just to produce the series and over 500 local vendors have reaped the benefits of the CW’s presence in Manhattan.

This morning, in honor of the show’s 100th episode and the impact it has had on the city, Mayor Bloomberg joined the cast, including Blake Lively, Penn Badgely and Ed Westwick, on their set in Queens to present them with an official proclamation dubbing January 26th Gossip Girl Day! In it’s final paragraph, the proclamation reads:

Gossip Girl is a show that people love talking, texting, tweeting and blogging about, and no matter where you’re from, everyone can identify with a group of friends who grow up together, go to school together and struggle to stay close and find their own way after they graduate. That this group of friends – and sometimes enemies – has come of age in New York has made for some fun and fascinating TV, and as fans pre for Monday’s 100th episode and the biggest royal wedding since, well, ever, we look forward to the conclusion of another wildly success season for Gossip Girls creators, cast and crew. xoxo

Break out the martinis and cell phones! Paint the town with X’s and O’s!

If this doesn’t guarantee them one more season, nothing will!

nydailynews.com:

Click more to see a video of the speech!

Here’s the scoop: Thanks to shows like “Gossip Girl,” New York City had its biggest year ever on the small screen in 2011.

And with “Gossip Girl” set to air its 100th episode this Monday, Mayor Bloomberg had an excuse to visit the set Wednesday — and get his picture taken with it’s sexy stars, Blake Lively, Kelly Rutherford and Kaylee DeFer.

“I don’t get to do this every day,” a beaming Bloomberg said on a stage at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City.

It also gave hizzoner a chance to crow about his administration’s efforts to turn the Big Apple into Hollywood East.

“New York City is a television town,” he said.

It’s also a town that’s hard to fake.

“Gossip Girl” executive producer Stephanie Savage said she had to fight her higher-ups to shoot the show in New York.

“We were quickly told it would be too expensive, too complicated,” she said.

Savage said she went into overdrive when she was shown a patch of green in a Los Angeles sound studio and told it could stand in for Central Park.

“It became our mission: New York, or bust,” she said. “We are honored to shoot in the city.”

Bloomberg, who prefers reading spy novels to watching TV, admitted he doesn’t watch “Gossip Girl,” which revolves around a group of privilege teens in his neighborhood — the Upper East Side.

But Bloomberg mostly stuck to his lines, reading a proclamation in which he declared himself totally interested “in finding out who the real Gossip Girl is. Serena’s cousin, maybe?”

That made some members of the cast smile.

“Gossip Girl” is just one of 23 TV series that were shot in the city last year.

A decade ago, just nine TV shows could carry the label “Made in New York.”

And there’s lots of money in TV.

Over the past five years, some $200 million was spent on local development just to produce “Gossip Girl,” a show that has provided a livelihood to 6,300 people working both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes, city officials said.

Last year, the popular show about the scandals of wealthy New Yorkers in Bloomberg’s neighborhood — the upper East Side — employed 180 crew members, 120 principal actors and uses 500 local vendors, they said.

The 100th “Gossip Girl” episode airs this Monday on the CW station.